To encourage Seattle residents to leave their stinky cars at home on occasion, the city is continuing its Walk Bike Ride campaign with a July Walk Bike Ride Challenge.
Starting July 4th and continuing through July 31st, Seattleites are invited to take the challenge.
Posted in alternative transportation, bikes, seattle, summer
Tagged City of Seattle, seattle, Walk Bike Ride, Way to Go
School has been out for a week and we’re just starting to get into our summer groove. Swimming, beach time, garden time, cleaning the deck, you know, all that fun summer stuff.
And of course, getting around on bikes.
I didn’t blog much about Bike to School Month this year (our 3rd year organizing and promoting it at our local elementary). Despite the record-setting rainy and cold month in Seattle, quite a few parents and kids got to school on two wheels in May. Of the 550 or so kids at school, 105 kids participated in Bike to School Month. Not a terrible statistic, but definitely has room for improvement.
Last summer Tim read Pedaling Revolution, by Jeff Mapes. I didn’t get a chance to read the whole thing but I did read Chapter 9: Bringing Kids Back to Bikes. Continue reading
Posted in bigger than here, bikes, kids
Tagged kids, kids and bikes, parents, riding with kids
Spoke and Food is tonight, June 29th. Ride your bike to dinner and 14 Seattle restaurants will donate a percentage of their profits to Lettuce Link at Solid Ground.
On the evening of Tuesday, June 29th, we invite you to bicycle to and from one of the 14 Seattle area restaurants who have all agreed to participate in our event. In support of our event goals, the participating restaurants have also agreed to donate a percent of the revenues they receive on the evening of our event to the non-profit organization we have selected to support. This year’s non-profit is the Lettuce Link program at Solid Ground.
Don’t forget to check the participating restaurants before you make dinner plans tonight!
– Anne
Posted in bigger than here, bikes, Events, extravehicular activities, summer
Tagged bikes, events, seattle, Solid Ground, Spoke and Food, summer
The Fourth of July Cargo Bike Ride is on.
When: Sunday, July 4th at Noon (ride leaves at 1:00)
Where: Meet at the Pergola in Pioneer Square (1st and Yesler)
Bring: lots of food and drink
We’re notoriously late and have never actually made this ride. We’ve pedaled down to Pioneer Square and missed the ride on more than one occasion.
We don’t know our plans for Sunday, but we’ll try to make it.
Happy Fourth!
– Anne and Tim
Posted in bikes, Events, extravehicular activities, summer
Tagged 2010, events, Fourth of July, rides, seattle
We’re still grinning about the 9 to 5 at our house (either it really was that fun, or we just need to get out more, I’m not sure which). Tim shot a bunch of video on the ride and I couldn’t just let it fester on our server.
So here you go, our short 9 to 5 video:
Hope you’re having a good summer
– Anne and Tim
Posted in bikes, Events, extravehicular activities, seattle, summer
Tagged 9 to 5, bike scavenger hunt, seattle, video
What would get some approaching-middle age parents to stay up all night riding bikes all over town looking for star fruit and covers of the out-of-print Seattle PI and wrapped toothpicks and Polaroid photos? Why the Solstice 9 to 5 all-night Bicycle Scavenger Hunt, of course. Continue reading
Posted in bikes, Events, extravehicular activities, seattle, summer
Tagged 9 to 5, bikes, fun, go means go, scavenger hunt, seattle
“Elusive blogger”, Eben Weiss, will be at University Book Store on the Ave. this Saturday, June 19th at 2:00 PM to promote his book.
Details from the University Book Store events calendar:
Saturday • June 19 • 2pm
BikeSnobNYC
Bike Snob (CHRONICLE)
Reading & Book Signing
U District store
In this event benefiting the organization Bike Works (which encourages sustainability and activity in young people by teaching them about cycling), NYC’s elusive blogger BikeSnobNYC will read from his new book and help us out with a raffle of gifts from Knog. Cyclists of Seattle, unite for the event. You have nothing to grease but your chains.
Tim and I (whom Eben would categorize as Mr. and Mrs. “Laden Righteous Cyclist” ) plan to pedal on over and check it out–we hope to see you there too!
– Anne
Posted in bikes, Events, seattle
Tagged BikeSnobNYC, events, reading, seattle, U-district
Thank goodness Todd shot this great video of Tim and the 7-year-old on their 3-lap parent/child run at fiets of parenthood. Otherwise we would have no record of the boy tripping over the tape, and Tim would probably still think it was his fault and feel guilty for causing his kid to fall down and get a scrape. Despite the fall, the Carfreedays boys still managed to eek out a top 5 finish. Continue reading
Posted in bikes, Events, extravehicular activities, kids, PDX
Tagged bikes, Families, Family Cycling, fiets of parenthood, kids, PDX, portland, sun
Don’t call us this week cause we probably won’t answer. We’re in training for fiets of parenthood in Portland next weekend. Continue reading
Posted in bikes, In other Cities, kids, PDX
Tagged cycling events, fiets of parenthood, Pedalpalooza, portland
Sometimes it rains. And you get wet. And you stop and wait for the rain to pass under a tree while you eat chocolate. And mom is kinda mad. Then you go home.
Looking forward to some better weather.
Please.
– Anne and Tim (not pictured but equally wet)
Posted in bikes, Burke-Gilman Trail, kids, weather
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